Word: civ
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...BUILDING The so-called God games turn kids into master builders. They can craft working metropolises--from sewers to skyscrapers--in SIM CITY 3000 or build empires to rule the world over 5,000 years of history in CIVILIZATION: CALL TO POWER, the latest and greatest in the popular Civ series. A taste of simulated despotism never hurt anyone...
...then, Halmi isn't aiming to see his productions deconstructed in Western Civ classes. In an era when TV is steeped in realism, Halmi's intent is to create lavish spectacles. Like his endlessly hyped 1994 mini-series Scarlett, the non-Margaret Mitchell-written sequel to Gone With the Wind, for which he conducted a $1 million worldwide search to find a star (ultimately actress Joanne Whalley-Kilmer), The Odyssey has been promoted with endless TV ads, a tie-in book and a Website game. The movie's budget went largely to transporting hundreds of cast and crew members...
...important that] we don't duplicate what's already being done in American Civ.," he says...
This normative justification for ethnic studies may initially seem preachy or provincial. Yet I maintain that the very traditions of liberal education dictate that such an ethical orientation be not only tolerated, but valorized. The great irony behind the diehard "Western Civ" crowd's opposition to ethnic studies is their neglect of the fact that the very tradition which they extol culminates in a modern conception of identity which makes ethnic studies a worthwhile aim. From Augustine to Nietzsche, and from Shakespeare to Rilke, the sweep of Western philosophy and literature calls us to a goal of self-realization through...
...irony is that many of Kagan's detractors on campus are also great advocates of Western Civ. Another is that by implying that multiculturalism, rather than clashing egos and tightfisted administrators, was interfering with Bass's gift, the Wall Street Journal editorial writers helped ensure the demise of a program that would have strengthened Yale's classical curriculum...